[Robotgroup] Thanks, BS II restarted

[Doug Emes]

> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:59:35 -0500
> From: Vern Graner <vern at txis.com>
>
> Sweet! We're actually gunna have a library of check-outable hardware for
> the classes! So, to the 5 kits you got I can add four BOE boards, two
> Carrier boards and one NX-1000 experimenters board all courtesy of the
> DPRG (via Rick). Thanks DPRG Guys! :)

Your welcome.  Figured since Rick was going to be in the neighborhood
why not do a hand-off.

> I have individually numbered and bagged each board I received and placed
> them in a box with a "sign out" sheet in a sleeve on the inside of the
> box. This should allow us to make the boards available to whoever needs
> them for projects and the BSII SIG's.
>
> The only slight problem with the BOEs, carriers and the NX-1000 board,
> is that none of them have BSII chips! :P

You didnt expect me to leave OUR robots brainless did you <tongue in cheek>

> I've sent an email to the good folks at Parallax asking if they could
> check under the cushions of the couch in the tech room to see if there
> were any spare BSII chips that needed a good home. ;)

If you end up with a large surplus, save 1 for the DPRG, ok?

> Hopefully we can get these boards populated and have enough hardware for
> an entire class! :)
>
> Vern

Enjoy em either way, the Whats a Microcontroller is a neat class.